Abstract: A method of manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes sequentially subjecting a slab for grain-oriented electrical steel sheet to hot rolling, cold rolling, decarburization annealing, final annealing after applying an annealing separator to a surface of the steel sheet, and flattening annealing. After the cold rolling and before the applying of an annealing separator, resist ink is applied to one side of the steel sheet. A laser is repeatedly scanned across a rolling direction of the steel sheet on the applied surface to remove resist ink. Electrolytic etching is applied on the removed areas to form grooves that extend linearly across the rolling direction and are lined up at intervals in the rolling direction. The scanning of the laser is performed with an irradiation energy of the laser being less than 30 J/m and a temperature of the steel sheet being 40° C. to 200° C.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that reduces iron loss by controlling the magnetic domain structure and can maintain the iron loss reduction effect even after subjection to stress relief annealing. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a predetermined chemical composition and a local area having a misorientation angle of 1.5 degrees or more from surrounding crystals and extending linearly in a direction crossing a rolling direction on at least one of front and back surfaces of the steel sheet, wherein the local area has a volume fraction of 0.1% or more and 2.0% or less and a residual stress of 100 MPa or less, and the surface having the local area has an average amount of roughness on a steel substrate being less than 5 ?m.

Abstract: A laminated core is disclosed and includes a stack of pieces of an electrical steel sheet that have a predetermined shape resulting from processing. The electrical steel sheet includes an insulating coating on a surface. A frequency of formation of cracks propagating through the insulating coating in a region extending 100 ?m toward a middle of the electrical steel sheet from a processed edge of the electrical steel sheet is less than or equal to 3.0 times the frequency of formation of cracks propagating through the insulating coating in a region extending toward the middle of the electrical steel sheet from a position more than 100 ?m from the processed edge to a position 500 ?m from the processed edge, where the frequency is expressed as a number per mm.

Abstract: The linear groove formation method includes a resist forming process of forming a coated resist on a surface of a steel sheet, a laser irradiating process of irradiating laser beams onto the steel sheet while repeating a laser scanning in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the steel sheet cyclically in the rolling direction of the steel sheet to remove the coated resist in portions irradiated with the laser beams, and an etching process of forming linear grooves by etching portions of the steel sheet from which the coated resist is removed. In the laser irradiating process, the coated resist is removed by using two or more laser irradiating devices, with a certain irradiation energy, a certain beam diameter in a direction perpendicular to a laser scanning direction, and a certain incidence angle with respect to the surface of the steel sheet.

Abstract: A laminated core includes a stack of pieces of an electrical steel sheet that have a predetermined shape resulting from processing and includes a butted portion at which portions of a processed surface of the electrical steel sheet are abutted against each other. In the electrical steel sheet, an area ratio of regions of the processed surface that have an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 5 ?m or less is 90% or greater based on a total area of the processed surface.

Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that achieves both low iron loss and low magnetostriction and has excellent transformer properties. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a thermal strain-imparted region extending in a direction crossing the rolling direction, where the steel sheet has a closure domain inside the thermal strain-imparted region, the thermal strain-imparted region has maximum points of tensile strain on both outer sides in the rolling direction of the closure domain, and in a strain distribution in the rolling direction of the thermal strain-imparted region, the strain at both outer sides of the closure domain is tensile strain larger than the strain at the center between the maximum points.

Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that achieves both low iron loss and low magnetostriction and has excellent transformer properties. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a thermal strain-imparted region extending linearly in a direction crossing the rolling direction, and in the strain distribution in the rolling direction of the thermal strain-imparted region, the strain at both ends of the thermal strain-imparted region is tensile strain larger than the strain at the center of the thermal strain-imparted region.

Abstract: Disclosed is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that exhibits excellent transformer characteristics and that has low iron loss and low magnetostriction properties. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a magnetic flux density B-magnetostriction waveform ?, referred to as a butterfly curve, when excited to 1.5 T or more, such that an amount of steel sheet elongation (??) with a magnetic flux density B ranging from 1.0 T to 1.5 T is 0.010×10?6 or more and 0.240×10?6 or less, and a length of a closure domain in the rolling direction, referred to as a closure domain width, is 20 ?m or more and 240 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a linear groove formation pattern with which both an effect of reducing the building factor and a high magnetic flux density can be obtained. In a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a plurality of linear grooves extending in a direction crossing a rolling direction of the steel sheet on a surface of the steel sheet, a surface of the steel sheet between the linear grooves has a recessed defect that is recessed from the surface, a volume fraction of the recessed defect in the steel sheet is 0.0025 vol % or more and 0.01 vol % or less of a steel sheet without the recessed defect, and discontinuous portions that disrupt the extension of the linear grooves are provided at a frequency of 30 or more and 200 or less per square meter of the steel sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with extremely low iron loss by means of a magnetic domain refining technique. In a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a plurality of magnetic domains refined via a local strain introduction portion, when a direct-current external magnetic field is applied to the steel sheet in a rolling direction, for a magnetic flux leaked from the local strain introduction portion at a position 1.0 mm away from a surface of the steel sheet at a side of the local strain introduction portion, a value obtained by dividing an intensity level of a total leakage magnetic flux by an intensity level of a magnetic flux leaked due to causes other than strain is more than 1.2.

Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that can benefit from the iron loss improving effect by groove formation while effectively suppressing a decrease in magnetic flux density. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprises predetermined linear grooves, wherein in each linear groove, a proportion of predetermined flat portions to an entire length of the linear groove is 30% or more and 90% or less, the number of flat portions each of which is continuous for a predetermined length is 10 or more per 100 cm2 surface area, and a ratio of ten-point average roughness Rzjis to average depth D is 0.1 or more and 1 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a magnetic flux density B8 of 1.92 T or more, wherein a ratio Wa/Wb of a film thickness Wa of a forsterite film on a strain-introduced surface to a film thickness Wb of a forsterite film on a non-strain-introduced surface is 0.5 or more, an average width of a magnetic domain discontinuous portion on the non-strain-introduced surface is 1.00 time or more of an average width of a magnetic domain discontinuous portion on the strain-introduced surface, the average width of the magnetic domain discontinuous portion on the non-strain-introduced surface is 400 ?m or less, and compressive stress exists in a rolling direction in a range from a surface of the steel sheet that is the strain-introduced surface to at least 2 ?m in a sheet thickness direction.

Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that combines low iron loss and low magnetostriction, together with an advantageous production method therefor. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprises a linear strain portion extending in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, wherein the linear strain portion has a stress distribution in which a compressive stress region and a tensile stress region alternate in a longitudinal direction of the linear strain portion. The linear strain portion is formed by vibrating the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet in a sheet thickness direction, while irradiating a surface of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with an electron beam by repeatedly moving and detaining the electron beam in the direction intersecting the rolling direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet to reduce iron loss by controlling the magnetic domain structure, in which the iron loss reduction effect can be maintained even when stress relief annealing is applied, and the magnetic flux density does not decrease after the magnetic domain control treatment. In the manufacturing method, on a surface of the grain oriented electrical steel sheet, a laser beam with a ring-shaped intensity distribution in which the intensity in a periphery is lower than that in a center is irradiated in a linear manner in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the steel sheet.

Abstract: To provide a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that can achieve both sufficiently low transformer core loss and sufficiently low noise. Disclosed is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a tension coating on a surface thereof and subjected to magnetic domain refining treatment by generating linear closure domains extending in a direction within 30° of a transverse direction, in which an average interval L between adjacent closure domains is 15 mm or less, a depth ratio rd of a depth of the closure domains to a sheet thickness, calculated by a predetermined formula, is 35% or more, and a volume fraction rv of the closure domains, calculated by a predetermined formula, is 0.30% or more and 3.0% or less, and an area ratio rs of the closure domains, calculated by a predetermined formula, is 0.50% or more and 4.0% or less.

Abstract: To form linear grooves of desired groove width on a metal strip surface and provide a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent magnetic properties, a linear groove formation method comprises: forming a resist coating on at least one surface of a metal strip; thereafter irradiating the resist coating with a laser while scanning the laser in a direction crossing a rolling direction of the metal strip, to remove the resist coating in a part irradiated with the laser; and thereafter performing etching treatment to form a linear groove in a part of the metal strip in which the resist coating is removed, wherein the resist coating contains a predetermined amount of an inorganic compound, and on the surface of the metal strip, the laser has a predetermined elliptic beam shape.

Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet which has been subjected to heat-resistant magnetic domain refining treatment and can effectively suppress carburizing and nitriding during stress relief annealing. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a plurality of grooves on one side that extend linearly across the rolling direction and are lined up at intervals in the rolling direction, and has at least a forsterite film on a surface of the steel sheet, where an average thickness of the forsterite film formed on the floor of the grooves is 0.45 ?m or more, and a standard deviation a of the thickness is 0.34 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a linear groove formation pattern with which both an effect of reducing the building factor and a high magnetic flux density can be obtained. In a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a plurality of linear grooves extending in a direction crossing a rolling direction of the steel sheet on a surface of the steel sheet, a surface of the steel sheet between the linear grooves has a recessed defect that is recessed from the surface, a volume fraction of the recessed defect in the steel sheet is 0.0025 vol % or more and 0.01 vol % or less of a steel sheet without the recessed defect, and discontinuous portions that disrupt the extension of the linear grooves are provided at a frequency of 30 or more and 200 or less per square meter of the steel sheet.

Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having both low iron loss and good magnetostrictive properties, with which a transformer having excellent properties can be manufactured. The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet of the present disclosure has a linear strain region extending linearly in a direction intersecting the rolling direction, where the linear strain region has a region having compressive stress in the rolling direction, and a region adjacent in a rolling direction to the region having compressive stress has a region having tensile stress in the rolling direction.

Abstract: Provided is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet that combines low iron loss and low magnetostriction, together with an advantageous production method therefor. A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet comprises a linear strain portion extending in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, wherein the linear strain portion has a stress distribution in which a compressive stress region and a tensile stress region alternate in a longitudinal direction of the linear strain portion. The linear strain portion is formed by vibrating the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet in a sheet thickness direction, while irradiating a surface of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet with an electron beam by repeatedly moving and detaining the electron beam in the direction intersecting the rolling direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet.